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Pedro Moura

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I’m a garden teacher and caretaker, wilderness instructor, grant writer, and freelance writer. I published “How to Beat a Broken Game” in ‘22.
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Part 3: Baseball remains far from taking root in Brazil

Part 3: Baseball remains far from taking root in Brazil

Orange County Register — SAO PAULO, Brazil - In 2010, thhe Brazilian brothers who hope to boost the sport of baseball in their native country began to watch young ballplayers in their hometown of Marilia, the site where the Tampa Bay Rays' academy was then set to be built. One day, they say, Edno and Adriano De Souza saw the makings of a professional player in a sinewy boy, aged 12, named Joao Vitor Ayres. At that point in his life, he'd played for a couple years at the only place he knew - a Japanese-run club in the town.
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Part 2: Brazil's baseball players feel like foreigners in their own country

Part 2: Brazil's baseball players feel like foreigners in their own country

Orange County Register — SAO PAULO, Brazil - Gaijin! Gaijin! Gaijin was Paulo Orlando's nickname growing up. His teammates called him gaijin; he called his coaches sensei. Gaijin is the Japanese word for foreigner. Orlando, a ballplayer and sprinter as a teenager in Brazil and now an outfielder for the Kansas City Royals, was a foreigner in his own land. For the most part, he didn't feel inferior; he just felt different. Not everyone's experience is so benign. Others felt the Japanese ballplayers believed they were superior to the native Brazilians. Some still feel that way.
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The forces preventing Brazil from being a pipeline to the major leagues

The forces preventing Brazil from being a pipeline to the major leagues

Orange County Register — SAO PAULO, Brazil - There he was, leaning over the dugout's top stair in an almost entirely empty ballpark in Japan, teetering between stepping up or stepping down, a Hall of Famer toiling in complete anonymity.
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Angels pitcher Hector Santiago a natural ... at getting baseball stars' autographs

Angels pitcher Hector Santiago a natural ... at getting baseball stars' autographs

Orange County Register — Angels left-hander Hector Santiago is obsessive about acquiring as many autographed jerseys as he can through any means necessary. Other major leaguers are known for their collections – Astros reliever Pat Neshek estimates he has amassed 25,000 signed baseball cards over more than a decade, Diamondbacks reliever Brad Ziegler aims to get entire sets of cards autographed, Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson collects NFL signatures – but Santiago is the most fearless.
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Moura: Rangers likely to benefit from arrogance of Angels owner Moreno

Moura: Rangers likely to benefit from arrogance of Angels owner Moreno

Orange County Register — ANAHEIM - Arte Moreno was the only one who wanted to bring Josh Hamilton to the Angels. Now he's the only one who wants to get rid of him. Fitting, isn't it? The Angels owner gets what he wants. The adverse effects his desires might inflict on others are of only minor importance. Regarding Friday's news the Angels are close to sending Hamilton home to Texas, this must be said: The Angels players would have welcomed him back to their team - some with wider arms than others, but all to some degree.
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Bend it like Beckett: Curve fuels Dodger pitcher's resurgence

Bend it like Beckett: Curve fuels Dodger pitcher's resurgence

Orange County Register — LOS ANGELES - The best thing to happen to Josh Beckett in a long time was Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis tearing the meniscus in his left knee last month. So says the 34-year-old right-hander, because with the downtime Ellis had after surgery, he put together a packet of information to show the struggling Beckett what he was doing wrong. And on April 11 in the Chase Field visitors' locker room, four hours before the Dodgers played the Diamondbacks and two days after Beckett had been lit up in his 2014 debut, the catcher approached the pitcher with an urgent message.
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Running for redemption

Running for redemption

sbnation.com — There are seven seats in the living room-sized lobby of Dr. Craig Dossman Jr.'s office in Long Beach, Calif., a popular coastal city located 25 miles southwest of Los Angeles. One afternoon last winter, American Olympic sprinter Bryshon Nellum sat in one of them as he awaited an appointment with Dossman, his preferred physical therapist for most of the last decade.
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The rise of USC Trojans receiver Marqise Lee

The rise of USC Trojans receiver Marqise Lee

ESPN — LOS ANGELES -- There have been two turning points in Marqise Lee's life. The first for the talented USC sophomore receiver was in 2004, when he tried to become a member of a gang as a 12-year-old in Inglewood, Calif. Dating almost as far back as he can remember, Lee watched his two older brothers live the gang lifestyle with the small, tight-knit gang set and wanted in himself. But when the time came, his brothers wouldn't let him enlist. "Where would I be if I would have joined?" Lee asks himself now. "I think about it all the time."
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Moura: Dodgers push aside traditional batting statistics in search of true value

Moura: Dodgers push aside traditional batting statistics in search of true value

Orange County Register — LOS ANGELES - Scott Schebler saw it every night, in every Pacific Coast League ballpark, his abysmal batting average beamed out from the outfield scoreboard for all to see. Six weeks into this season with Triple-A Oklahoma City, the Dodgers' outfield prospect was hitting .190. The year before in Double-A, he had hit .280. The year before that, .296 in High-A. The competition was better, but not that much better. His latest results didn't make sense. "I was frustrated and lacking confidence," Schebler said. "I wasn't getting results and just getting madder and madder and madder."
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